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oddments

nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,125 of 15,258Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Oddments are small leftover items of various kinds. A drawer of oddments, sell the oddments, oddments of fabric.

It is plural only and cheerfully vague: oddments is what you call a collection too mixed to name. In shops it means end-of-line stock, and in sewing it means the pieces left over that are too good to throw away and never quite used.

Definitions of oddments

  1. 1nounoddmentsSmall leftover items of various kinds.C2

    “The drawer was full of oddments: buttons, keys, string and old batteries.”

oddments is leftovers.

Where it comes from

oddment comes from odd + -ment.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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oddments in the wild

  • The volume contains stories, cartoons, essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, aphorisms, and other oddments.

    The Mathematical Magpie

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.